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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

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  • The Democrats' Recall Bomb - 11 hours agoIn Wisconsin, Democrats are testing out a new political weapon: the use of recall elections against Republicans, as the GOP establishment slumbers.
  • Barack Obama is a Bad Man - 11 hours agoWhen he first entered the national political arena, I thought Barack Obama was a sincere man, mistaken in some of his political beliefs, but an honest advocate of them. Not anymore.
  • Is Another Shoe Yet to Drop in Opinion-gate? - 11 hours agoPresident Barack Obama just got caught opinion-shopping for a government lawyer. How far will the scandal reach?
  • The Coming Fall of the Teachers' Unions - 11 hours agoA devastating exposé of teacher union power reveals the seeds of destruction already planted.
  • Is Obama's Libyan Attack Legal or Not? - 11 hours agoObama's being hassled because he's dropping bombs and bullets on Libyan targets without Congressional permission.


  • Wall Street extends gains, hits session high (Reuters) - 58 minutes agoReuters - U.S. stocks extended gains on Tuesday, with the Nasdaq Composite up 2 percent and the Dow and S&P 500 at session highs as optimism over a confidence vote for Greece and better-than-expected ...
  • Home sales hit 6-month low, prices decline (Reuters) - 19 minutes agoReuters - Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell to a six-month low in May and prices dropped 4.6 percent from a year ago, pointing to a housing market still struggling to regain its footing.
  • Fed meeting begins; weaker growth key to debate (Reuters) - 2 hours agoReuters - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday began a two-day meeting against the backdrop of a weakening U.S. economy that will likely force policymakers to plan for the possibility that things may get wo...



  • Greece faces 'moment of truth' on crisis - 53 minutes agoGreece faces a "moment of truth" as the government battles to win a vote of confidence and access a multi-billion euro loan, the EU says.
  • New ash cloud chaos for Australia - 3 hours agoAustralia's two major airports in Sydney and Melbourne face up to 48 hours of disruption as the ash cloud from a Chilean volcano hits again.
  • Clinton backs 'brave' Saudi women - 22 minutes agoUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praises "brave" women in Saudi Arabia who are campaigning for the right to drive.
  • Japan and US delay Okinawa plan - 50 minutes agoJapan and the US drop a 2014 deadline to move a controversial airbase on Okinawa, saying it will be moved as soon as possible.
  • Russia crash 'may be pilot error' - 5 hours agoInvestigators try to find the cause of a plane crash in north-west Russia in which 44 people died, as Deputy PM Sergey Ivanov blames pilot error.

  • Arrest over hit-and-run boy death - 1 hour agoPolice arrest a man in connection with the death of a six-year-old boy in a hit-and-run incident in West Yorkshire.
  • Drink driving GP 'sleep walking' - 13 minutes agoA doctor from Greater Manchester is banned from driving after he admitted to drink driving while he was asleep
  • Queen in 10 Downing Street visit - 1 hour agoThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh make a rare visit to Downing Street, for a lunch to celebrate the Duke's recent 90th birthday.
  • New HS2 rail benefits 'uncertain' - 3 hours agoThe financial benefits of the HS2 London to Birmingham high-speed rail project are uncertain, an independent review prepared for MPs finds.
  • US submarine 'close to grounding' - 21 minutes agoA US nuclear submarine came close to grounding during attempts to rescue crew members who had been swept overboard off Plymouth, a navy report says.


  • Understanding the Data One References - 58 minutes agoI am certain that I have made this mistake myself, but Kevin Drum is careless about using data just because it 1) is labeled in a way he thinks he understands and 2) it supports his pre-conceived noti...
  • Forced to Goof Off - 9 hours agoKevin Drum seems upset that the US Government does not mandate paid time off for all US workers The map below shows this starkly: the United States is virtually alone in not mandating any annual tim...
  • 19th Century FU - 9 hours agoHere are a couple of mansions in San Francisco , on of which was built by Charles Crocker of the “big 4″ (including Sanford, Huntington, and Hopkins) who built the western half of the transcontinental...
  • The Statist’s Wet Dream - 1 day agoI find it absolutely unsurprising that Paul Krugman was enthralled by the vision of a science that can be used by a few people to control the actions and futures of all humanity.  He said “I want to b...
  • The Appeal of Coupons - 3 days agoAges ago, I was an executive at Mercata, an Internet store whose strategy was to sell items whose price would go down as more people agreed to buy the item.  In theory, this creates an incentive for v...


  • Least Free State in the US - 4 days agoV48J3QQ3UFV7 Research conducted at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center has found New York to be the ”least free state in the Union” according to a set of criteria that weighs factors includi...
  • Can You Survive the 2012 Apocalypse in this French Hamlet? - 4 days agoThe tiny southern French hamlet of Bugarach has drawn scrutiny from a government sect watchdog over droves of visitors who believe it is the only place in the world that will survive a 2012 Apocalyp...
  • Anonymous Takes Down Monsanto's Website - 1 week agoAnonymous Takes Down Monsanto's Website Monsanto is using bribery, the law, intimidation and any other means available to it to start to control the world food supply with it's genetically m...
  • Hillary Clinton to run World Bank - 1 week agoSecretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said Thursday....
  • Newt Gingrich's Presidential Set-Back - 1 week agoIn a major blow to Newt Gingrich's presidential hopes, senior advisers to his 2012 campaign resigned en masse today, citing strategic differences. The staffers include Rick Tyler, a longtime p...

  • Daredevils: The Human Spider Returns - 5 hours agoAlain Robert is known to the world as The Human Spider and is arguably the most daring climber the world has ever seen. This film follows Alain over two years, bringing his story up to date with new, ...
  • Civilization: Is the West History? - 1 day agoNiall Ferguson asks why it was that Western civilization, from inauspicious roots in the 15th century, came to dominate the rest of the world; and if the West is about to be overtaken by the rest. Fer...
  • Status Anxiety - 2 days agoWhy doesn’t money (usually) buy happiness? Alain de Botton breaks new ground for most of us, offering reasons for something our grandparents may well have told us, as children. It is rare, and pleasin...
  • 9/11 False Flag - 3 days agoThe world has changed after September 11th. It’s changed because we’re no longer safe. These words were used by the George W. Bush, elected President of the United States in 2000, to dictate the polit...
  • The Body Machine - 4 days agoThe Body Machine is a landmark special on the human body that shows us just how much, how many, how large, how strong, how fast – just how amazing the body really is. Utilizing impressive large-scale ...

  • Debating drone use as pursuit of autonomous drones continues - 2 days agoEarlier this month Foreign Policy magazine website ran an article called ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ arguing that those opposing drones are “misleading the public” and “distracting attention away from som...
  • The magical realism of body counts - 1 week ago Funeral for drone strike victims in Pakistan We are reposting this excellent article by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, co-editor of Pulsemedia.org , examining the reporting of civilian casualties from dro...
  • Focus on drones and targeted killing at forthcoming human rights conference - 1 week agoThe European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and Amnesty International are hosting a conference entitled TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11  in Berlin on June 29 to map how the ‘war on terror’ is...
  • Doubling the Drones - 1 week agoThe rise of the drone seems to know no bounds.  Just months after  David Cameron’s pledge to double the UK’s Reaper drone fleet , the latest US military aircraft procurement plan shows that the Pentag...
  • Now We Are One: A Few Stats - 2 weeks ago1                 Drone Wars UK blog is one year old today 14               People visited looking for information about the Creech 14 64               UAV crashes reported in our Drone Crash Data...

  • The new, privatised web - 11 hours agoThe web is about to change with a range of new, private domains appearing in the near future. While it's being portrayed as an opportunity for businesses, it's part of an underlying trend to l...
  • The Taliban punchline to end the horrific joke - 11 hours agoTalks between the US and the Taliban are among our war aims now. We are bombing families with Taliban relatives, and house-searching families with Taliban relatives, in order to form a Taliban-Karzai ...
  • The elephant in the pokie room - 11 hours agoElephants are lovely creatures: thoughtful, dignified, family-oriented, easy to anthropomorphise when they appear to grieve over the death of a loved one. Not much fun to have in the room with you tho...
  • The environmental Nazi hunter - 13 hours agoAs a sort of "grand finale" to a presentation at a conference earlier this month in Los Angeles, climate "sceptic" Lord Christopher Monckton displayed on the giant conference scree...
  • Give Rudd credit where credit is due - 14 hours agoLast week, Kevin Rudd declared he wanted to be "one of Australia's better foreign ministers" yet strangely not the best. Since losing the prime ministership, Rudd's approach to forei...


  • Live from Paris Air & Space Show today: CryoSat - 8 hours agoToday in the ESA pavilion at the Paris Air & Space show, ESA’s CryoSat - Europe’s first satellite dedicated to the study of ice. Results from measurements performed during the first year of the missio...
  • Signing of EDA–ESA Administrative Arrangement - 1 day agoESA PR 19-2011. ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain met EDA Chief Executive Claude-France Arnould at the Paris Air & Space Show today to sign an Administrative Arrangement on cooperation between...
  • Johannes Kepler has left the Station - 1 day agoEurope’s Johannes Kepler ATV cargo ferry undocked from the International Space Station today at 14:46:30 GMT (16:46:30 CEST). The craft is now leaving the orbital outpost far behind and will end its m...
  • Le Bourget: DG press conference replay - 1 day agoToday in the ESA Pavilion at the Paris Air & Space Show, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, updated media on latest developments and achievements. Watch the replay
  • ATV preparing for fiery destruction - 4 days agoATV Johannes Kepler has been an important part of the International Space Station since February. Next week, it will complete its mission by undocking and burning up harmlessly in the atmosphere high ...
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